Re: [YugoUnitedGVOwners] disturbing Yugo images.

What has happened to my country? I like the image of the guy holding the stick like a big phallus, as though he is now about to rape the beaten down Yugo in

Message 1 of 15
, Apr 1, 2004

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What has happened to my country?

I like the image of the guy holding the stick like a
big phallus, as though he is now about to rape the
beaten down Yugo in front of a drunk and adoring crowd
of SUV owners. It's very sad.

Another image it brings to mind, particularly the the
holes in flesh of Yugo's side suggests that it has
been scourged--the jeering audience, the tolerant
silence of the Yugo who only meant to do good and came
into a tumultuous world with only the purest of
intentions and a revolutionary spirit, now being
mocked--kind of reminds of a scene in a movie that's
out right now, the title of which I won't mention.

This is the world we live in. The senselessness
continues on today.

But the senseless derision aimed at the small car
doesn't stop with the Yugo. There was a car brought
to these shores with a similar intent, and I owned it
as my first car. It was a Renault Alliance. With all
the anti-French sentiment in this country generated by
France's unwillingness to endorse the Bush plan, a
local auto dealer threw a big promotion in which they
crushed one. Also, I just saw an ad yesterday for
another local dealer who was promoting a deal in which
you could bring in any car in any shape and get $4000
for a trade in. Behind him was a nice looking Renault
Alliance. The dealer depressed the plunger in his
hand and blew the Renault to bits.

It seems that what Americans resent even more than a
little car, is a little car that really tries to be
more than a shit box. Americans don't mind a little
car, as long as it doesn't get too cocky, which is why
you never see such displays against, for example, a
Datsun B210 or even Hyundais. As soon as Hyundai
could, they made their cars bigger to keep the market
share.

I have a feeling that had Yugo been successful here,
in order to stay successful, the Yugo would have had
to have gotten bigger and restyled, just like the
original--VW, and its followers Honda and Hyundai.

In the US we'd rather go to war than save on gas. We
proclaim our rights to freedom, even if it means we
have to take from others instead of conserve our own
resources. The worst part is, there is plenty of oil
in the US. But we would rather go to war instead of
use are own oil which is so much more expensive to
produce.

Wow, What a great piece Joseph. As an Englishman it gives me hope to know that some Americans feel like you do. The UK is hardly blameless for anything bad

Message 2 of 15
, Apr 2, 2004

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Wow,
What a great piece Joseph.
As an Englishman it gives me hope to know that some Americans feel
like you do. The UK is hardly blameless for anything bad going on in
this world,we have trained most countries armies and sold them the
arms too. As a country we make profits from other peoples resources.
From someone on the outside America's environmental policy is non
existent.For a country that proclaims to be the "defender" of the
globe,without a decent environment policy, there won't be an earth
worth defending. The rest of the world knows, this is because of
greasey back handers, while fat cats in big business want to make
all the money they can, no matter who suffers,they pull the strings
on all our politicians. The motor industry is a classic example.
All the 'Green' alternative fuelled vehicles are dreams that won't
be truely invested into and released to the public until there is no
other choice. It should be mainstream now. I'm sure the stories of
major motor companies buying up plans and ideas and shelving them,
to prevent them effecting their sales are true.The oil giants don't
like 'green' very much.
My main point is that,perhaps,thanks to our global media,
the rest of the world thinks the USA and MORE IMPORTANTLY the
American people don't care about all this. It is a time of change,
and YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH IT WOULD HELP,IN SO MANY WAYS,TO
HEAR MORE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TALKING LIKE YOU JOSEPH.
Protesting that as a country this is not what you want.After all its
down to votes! But as i say ....we get the impression here that you
don't care.
We all know Iraq was about oil....look at all the money
that will be taken out in contracts to rebuild and develop the
country and we blew it all up in the first place! Which brings in
more money from us the tax payer, paying for weapons, which makes
shareholders very happy!! So the cycle goes on.
Libya with Mr Blair...who i might add we on mass do not trust
(i never have) is in it for British business. More contracts.
We went into Africa to stop the gang warfare...yes people
were being brutally killed and raped,but the first thing the British
army did was to secure one of the worlds biggest diamond mines.Hmmm.
Sadam is an evil man...and he killed thousands and he
needed to be removed. But remember he was financed by the USA when
it suited them.The UK supplied weapons. So he could fight a war that
we didin't officially want to get involved with.Then when it doesn't
work and he doesn't dance to the tune anymore we wonder why we have
Big problems.
However there are many evil leaders and regimes, many far
worse than Sadam ever was. Yet we won't do anything about it.Why?
Because there is no financial gain. No way of paying the bill and
then some...short term.
Forgetting that a country doing well will offer trade
opportunities in the future, with a more content population.
Sad to say that whatever currency we use,we place too
much importance in excessive material wealth and the generation of
it,sacrificing our duty to our fellow humans and the future human
race.
It's 2004 and we have Billionaires and people who have
to dig grubs out of the soil just to survive. No wonder there is
hatred.
I think the tide is turning, we need to move fast and
change our way of looking at the world or we will lose it all. Then
no one will have anything.
Speak UP let the rest of the world know how the most influential
people on earth feel and believe.Then us European's might sleep well
at night.
We all need to follow the Yugo(car)way of thinking!

> What has happened to my country?
>
> I like the image of the guy holding the stick like a
> big phallus, as though he is now about to rape the
> beaten down Yugo in front of a drunk and adoring crowd
> of SUV owners. It's very sad.
>
> Another image it brings to mind, particularly the the
> holes in flesh of Yugo's side suggests that it has
> been scourged--the jeering audience, the tolerant
> silence of the Yugo who only meant to do good and came
> into a tumultuous world with only the purest of
> intentions and a revolutionary spirit, now being
> mocked--kind of reminds of a scene in a movie that's
> out right now, the title of which I won't mention.
>
> This is the world we live in. The senselessness
> continues on today.
>
> But the senseless derision aimed at the small car
> doesn't stop with the Yugo. There was a car brought
> to these shores with a similar intent, and I owned it
> as my first car. It was a Renault Alliance. With all
> the anti-French sentiment in this country generated by
> France's unwillingness to endorse the Bush plan, a
> local auto dealer threw a big promotion in which they
> crushed one. Also, I just saw an ad yesterday for
> another local dealer who was promoting a deal in which
> you could bring in any car in any shape and get $4000
> for a trade in. Behind him was a nice looking Renault
> Alliance. The dealer depressed the plunger in his
> hand and blew the Renault to bits.
>
> It seems that what Americans resent even more than a
> little car, is a little car that really tries to be
> more than a shit box. Americans don't mind a little
> car, as long as it doesn't get too cocky, which is why
> you never see such displays against, for example, a
> Datsun B210 or even Hyundais. As soon as Hyundai
> could, they made their cars bigger to keep the market
> share.
>
> I have a feeling that had Yugo been successful here,
> in order to stay successful, the Yugo would have had
> to have gotten bigger and restyled, just like the
> original--VW, and its followers Honda and Hyundai.
>
> In the US we'd rather go to war than save on gas. We
> proclaim our rights to freedom, even if it means we
> have to take from others instead of conserve our own
> resources. The worst part is, there is plenty of oil
> in the US. But we would rather go to war instead of
> use are own oil which is so much more expensive to
> produce.
>
> Joseph Long
>
>
> --- "David G." <winnderfish_falls@y...> wrote:
> > If you really love Yugos, you may want to not look
> > at
> > these or you might cry...
> >
> > Senseless violence against a defensless Yugo:
> > http://www.math.gatech.edu/~mason/pic/louis/yugo.JPG
> >
> > Abandoned Yugo:
> >
> http://lokotavci.tripod.com/images/smeti/Yugo%20nostalgija.jpg
> >
> > If I can stomach them, will find more later.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David G.
> >
> >
> >
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Joseph Long

Thanks. There are lots of Americans who care about the world outside of the U.S. We are just not very popular right now. We ll see how many Americans like

Message 3 of 15
, Apr 2, 2004

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Thanks. There are lots of Americans who care about
the world outside of the U.S. We are just not very
popular right now. We'll see how many Americans like
what Bush and his henchmen have done to the country in
the next election--that is, if the Supreme Courts lets
the American people speak.

Believe me, there are plenty of Americans who feel as
lied to, oppressed, pushed over, used, ripped open and
laid waste on our own soil by this government as you
do over there.

Worse, I could also see Bush losing the U.S.'s oldest
and best ally over Iraq. I really feel that Blair
trusted Bush, or at least gave Bush his loyalty
despite whether he trusted Bush or not. But like many
who associate with a bad crowd, Blair will end up
going down, too.

But, I don't want to forget that this discussion group
concerns the Yugo, and I'll get off my soapbox now,
before I get labelled a traitor.

I really just see Bush as a typical example of the
kind of person who not only hates the idea behind the
Yugo, would happily stomp it out in the way only a
true stupid bully could, and finish by degrading its
memory.

Lest people think I'm a softy, I was completely, and
still am, in favor of getting Osama. Where is he?

We'll see Osama with the first shipment of new Yugos
to the U.S.

I'm done on this topic now. I swear. I guess I'm
riled up by that article in the Oregonian, as well.

I need to calm down and think of my Yugo. I think
I'll rename my Yugo Prozac.